Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue - EXTRA2

this is where aokana peaks

[h3] "I want you to make it, from the bottom of my heart." [/h3] I do not like FC. The impossibility of its premise, in which two players equipped with anti-gravity boots engage in a 1-on-1 battle in the sky to try and score points against one another (if you are not familiar, try if you can to imagine an insane combination of tag, speed skating, and fighter plane-like aerial dogfighting conducted by two humans suspended some few hundred feet above the ocean), is not my issue. Hell, explaining it that way makes it sound awesome. My problems come alongside all the devils that arise once the writers begin trying to explain the details of how the sport actually [i] works[/i]. One major issue is that the strategies the players come up with and employ appear and disappear throughout Aokana's runtime, becoming silver bullets or entirely useless arbitrarily in what I can only assume is a naive attempt to constantly raise the stakes of the next match. For example, Misaki—the canonical heroine of the base game and now the focus here in EXTRA2—spends the majority of her training arc in the original learning to fly and perform her maneuvers and dogfighting upside down, an extremely difficu…

Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue - EXTRA2 is a focused continuation that gives Misaki Tobisawa considerably more room to develop beyond the conclusion of her original route. Rather than retelling familiar events or attempting to introduce another large collection of romantic possibilities, it concentrates on what happens after Misaki and Masaya Hinata have already established their relationship. Developed by sprite and NekoNyan Ltd. and published by NekoNyan Ltd. and HIKARI FIELD, the game is clearly designed for players who already know Aokana's characters and its unusual competitive world. The story takes place several months after Misaki's victory in the fall Flying Circus tournament. That achievement should theoretically leave her feeling completely satisfied, yet EXTRA2 recognizes that reaching an important goal can create just as much uncertainty as pursuing one. With summer approaching its end, Misaki has to consider what comes next. Her ability is no longer something she can easily dismiss, and her success has brought additional attention and expectations. This creates an interesting conflict between the naturally relaxed side of her personality and the competitive dr…

EXTRA 3 when

I’m not ready to let go of FC man. This was so freaking good.

An Absolute Masterpiece.